Recently learned about touchdesigner. It's been around forever, but I hadn't heard of it. Saw it has a midi operator, and tried wiring it to Orca. Fun! #theWorkshop

I've decided to donate my Latte Panda Alpha as part of a larger year-long trend of trimming back my inventory of stuff. In this case, it's an excellent computer, but now I don't really need it's ergonomics and gpio.
I'm marking the occasion by celebrating why I got it to begin with - to webcam a bluebird house. We were able to monitor for predators and enjoy watching a few rounds of hatchlings grow up. Thanks Panda! On to new adventures!

Wired up this 5V media player with a 3 to 5V booster board and a usb charger board*. Both are inside this sandwich with a lipo battery and a custom aluminum back plate. I wired the three boards together with wrapping wire because it's thin and flexible, but that's probably "the wrong thing to do™". Anyways once that tiny lipo is charged up, we'll see if it's all behaving.

Loading up beach reads including Wiktopher [1] on my jail broken e-reader. [2]

1. https://wiktopher.ca/

2. https://tendigits.space/site/ereader_jailbreak.html

"...merging computing and drawing involves merging cultures and methods."
- Computational Drawing, Carl Lostritto

added
| SDL_WINDOW_BORDERLESS
to line 458 of uxnemu.c to remove the mac toolbar from my uxn windows :)

I found that a few sheets in this book of negatives are color. I can't tell if the development was done in a not great way, if the negative color has degraded over time, or if I've not done a great job processing. Possibly all three. #theWorkshop

More experiments photographing negatives. These are pictures my dad took of some of my mom’s fiber arts pieces from when she did weaving. Close ups are with a macro lens attachment but these are all taken with phone camera. Next I’ll try a “real” camera with more glass. #theWorkshop

"when a website loads in under 500ms I feel that the people behind this website care about me more than just a number in a spreadsheet or a pixel in a dashboard"

From What Makes a Website Cool [1] found in the remarkably well curated mailings of Naive Weekly [2]

1 - https://buttondown.email/robinrendle/archive/what-makes-a-website-cool/

2 - https://www.naiveweekly.com

Catching up on RSS (leads to) finding @trevorflowers really cool Alto replicas (leads to) learning the replicas use an emulator called ContrAlto (leads to) messing around with an OS as old as I am.

[Opens Apple WWDC video]

[Sees someone walking around with a giant ski mask inside]

"Super yuck"

[Close browser tab]

Adding my take to the inspiring Merveilles logo :merveillesbg: creative challenge that others have been posting #theLogo

Digging back into @compudanzas uxn tutorial for the (I think) third time. Each time I return, I find a bit more is retained from the last time, so it's great to build on that, even if slowly.

What I especially like about learning uxn is that it's very much the opposite of modern coding patterns like "inherit this library which depends on these libraries x 1000."

In contrast, uxn feels like "I wrote this pixel from scratch. I earned this pixel."

rebellion can take many forms

“The chip is a tiny computer program the size of a domino. It stores 48000 bits of information.”
— from video in my previous boosted post.

For #finishit I'll complete my brutalist norns sheild case. It's nearly there so maybe there will be a secondary goal as well.

Literally found this on the side of the road with a note indicating it worked and just needed ink. Brought it home, cleaned it up, put in new ink. Works as advertised. Bringing it over to my parents today so mom can use it.

So much amazing stuff being shared in merveilles.town. What a difference to be surprised and creatively inspired compared to other feeds.

A new wiki collecting info for circuit bending. Shared by Haunted Harmonics on IG.
https://circuitbending.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

Good morning, basil on the roof 🌱